In the event that you do not have a pc at your disposal and that you have the habit of accumulating a lot of data, photos, or videos on your Samsung Galaxy S20 +, you must quickly become full of the internal storage of this one. In recent years, brands have also tended to integrate a micro SD port. However, transferring files without a computer can be problematic. You have undoubtedly heard of a sufficiently effective technique, using a USB key.
In this tutorial, we are going to teach you how to connect a USB stick to a Samsung Galaxy S20 +? To do this, first of all, we will review the advantages that you will have to perform this manipulation, then, the practical part, in which you will see all the steps for connect your USB key to your Samsung Galaxy S20 +.
What will the connection of a USB key to a Samsung Galaxy S20 + allow?
Before showing you the procedure for use a USB key directly on your Samsung Galaxy S20 +, we will come back to the advantages of this solution. Generally benefiting from storage on a mobile phone is essential, especially as we do not really realize it, however, with the quality of the photo sensors of our mobile phones which are constantly improving, the weight of the photos and videos gets pretty darn awesome. So we naively get the impression that having 64GB or 128GB on a mobile phone is more than reasonable, except that with a 50 Mpx photo sensor that records videos in 4K they can quickly become saturated.
One of the first advantages of using a USB key directly on your Samsung Galaxy S20 + will be to give you the possibility of free up memory on your Samsung Galaxy S20 + by uploading content to it. In addition, you can also directly download files that a friend has sent to you, for example, on a USB stick. You can also in the same way connect an external hard drive to your Samsung Galaxy S20 +.
How to connect a USB stick to a Samsung Galaxy S20 +?
Now is the time to move on to the practical part of this article! We will first see the procedure for connect a USB key to a Samsung Galaxy S20 + , then see show how to transfer data from one to the other.
How to read a USB stick on a Samsung Galaxy S20 +?
First of all, you will need an adapter to connect your USB key to your Samsung Galaxy S20 +. Indeed, in the event that you have carefully analyzed the curves of your device, you must have realized rather quickly that there was no USB socket on it. It is with the help of a technology called OTG that you will be able to perform this operation. You will need to get an adapter or an OTG cable, these small accessories are very easily found for a few euros on the internet or in specialized stores.
Finally, you will have to connect the adapter or the cable that you have purchased to the micro or nano USB socket of your Samsung Galaxy S20 + and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable to a Samsung Galaxy S20 +, see our article.
How to transfer files to USB flash drive from Samsung Galaxy S20 +?
Finally, now that you understand how the system works and that you are equipped with the right accessory, we will quickly show you how to transfer data between a USB key and your Samsung Galaxy S20 +? Whether in one direction or the other, the process is identical. Apply the guidelines below to achieve this:
- Download a data manager in the event that the application originally installed on your mobile phone does not suit you
- Connect the OTG adapter to your Samsung Galaxy S20 +
- Connect a USB key or an external hard drive
- Open your file manager
- Find the data you want to transfer to one of the two directories, you should see your USB key displayed in the storage locations
- Now do "Copy / Paste" or "Cut / Paste" depending on what you want to do between the two storage locations
In the event that you are looking for a maximum of tutorials to become the absolute master of the Samsung Galaxy S20 +, we invite you to consult the other tutorials in the category: Samsung Galaxy S20 +.
